Title :
Language model-based retrieval for Farsi documents
Author :
Taghva, Kazem ; Coombs, Jeffrey ; Pareda, Ray ; Nartker, Tom
Author_Institution :
Inf. Sci. Res. Inst., Nevada Univ., Las Vegas, NV, USA
Abstract :
We report on an application of language modeling techniques to the retrieval of Farsi documents. We discovered that language modeling improves the precision of retrieval when compared to a standard vector space model.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; document handling; information retrieval; natural languages; probability; Farsi documents; language model-based retrieval; standard vector space model; Design for experiments; Frequency estimation; Information retrieval; Information science; Maximum likelihood estimation; Natural languages; Probability distribution; Space technology; Speech recognition; Standards development;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2108-8
DOI :
10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286582
